diff --git a/tika-serialization/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/serialization/JsonMetadata.java b/tika-serialization/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/serialization/JsonMetadata.java
index 78a94c170d..72a9c3f9a3 100644
--- a/tika-serialization/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/serialization/JsonMetadata.java
+++ b/tika-serialization/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/serialization/JsonMetadata.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.CloseShieldWriter;
 
 import org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig;
-import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
 import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
 
 public class JsonMetadata {